For more than 15 years, this downtown dive bar has hosted fiery outdoor “iron pours.”

The beauty of urban decay, hiding some dark secrets.

Just a few miles from downtown Atlanta is a trail covered in a crazy collection of outsider art.

This mural pays tribute to Atlanta natives and hip hop legends Andre 3000 and Big Boi, better known as OutKast.

This Native American petroglyph marks the location of an important, Creek trail.

This Art-Deco movie palace is the oldest independent cinema in Atlanta.

An oddity shop filled with taxidermy, funerary memorabilia, and more.

Unruly residents were housed in this one-person cell until the Black Maria arrived.

No passport is required to eat around the world at this elegant restaurant.

A psychedelic tribute to one of Georgia's most unique artistic visionaries, out of place and time in the heart of Atlanta.

A provocative museum dedicated to the genre and the harsh realities that inspired its origins.

This small cemetery is all that remains of Atlanta's first Black communities.

Civil War soldiers, captains of industry, and paupers all interred on historic grounds.

A grassroots community effort in the 1970s led to the creation of this beautiful garden full of delightfully whimsical exhibits.

This wondrous hideaway is suspended in a bamboo forest above a sanctuary for rescued llamas and alpacas.

Atlanta's strange assortment of concrete pillars inspires reflection in some, confusion in others.

Scattered around Atlanta are little doors with big charm.

Mai Tais and Navy Grog served up in one of the original tiki bars.

Suspended above the ground in a thicket of towering Georgia trees is a modern architectural wonder.

An underground magnet for ever-changing street art.

The world's second largest single-dish radio telescope, once used to contact E.T.

An unnatural lake in a naturally beautiful setting.

The crumbling remnants of this 19th-century quarantine hospital hint at the touristy island's darker past.

This abandoned church dominates the landscape of a former mining boomtown.